Comments on: Enhancing CRM 4: Workflows vs. Plugins

By: Z

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 02:11:49 +0000

Hi,

this is probably a very stupid question but do plugins trigger if i use a custom web application to update an entity in crm using the sdk or would that only trigger a workflow? if a plugin would trigger would it be a sync plugin or async plugin.

Thanks!
Z

By: Dustin

Dustin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:36:26 +0000

Thanks, I was not sure if I was incorrect by trying to increment a loop counter custom int attribute for a workflow I'm working on. My CRM 4.0 deployment will not increment and update the field. Any ideas?

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:59:42 +0000

I would say that the plugin is much stronger if you want CRM to interact with external applications/3rd-party databases.

From that point of view (as a Solution Developer), you are better off using plugin's since you can use those always.

Yes, workflows can be created more quickly and can be maintained a lot easier than plugin's, but the plugins are more versatile.

By: mitch

mitch — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:39:45 +0000

that is correct.

By: jz

jz — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 21:44:29 +0000

Mitch, when you use dynamicentity, you don't get the strongly-type object rite?

By: mitch

mitch — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:49:55 +0000

Mike,

It sounds like you have not refreshed your web reference after creating your custom entity. Try that and see it it helps. That is if you are using the normal CRM Web Service.

But, if you're talking about using the Microsoft.Crm.Sdk, and Microsoft.Crm.SdkTypeProxy, you're going to have to use a DynamicEntity to reference the custom Entity and Attributes.

Mitch

By: Mike Mc

Mike Mc — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 08:19:37 +0000

This is really good but how do you use the plugin system with custom entities/fields? In crm 3.0 you could do customentity.customfield, i cant seem to get CRM 4.0 to compile a plugin based off the web service since it does not contain the iplugin class.